Magallanes

Mar 17th drove to airport (2 hours), got there just before 10 with, we thought, an hour to spare.  They were boarding the plane.  I have no idea what happened.  Just made it.
Flew North to Puerto Montt, waited an hour and boarded another plane South.  Arrived in Punta Arenas in the afternoon and pastor Pedro picked us up.  Spend the night and in the morning boarded the 20 passenger plane to Williams.  Great flight with almost no turbulence.
Preached Sat and Sun, met with lots of folks.  The church is doing good and pastor Felipe and family are well.
Headed back to Punta Arenas the 22nd and spoke Wed night at Pedro's church.  They had a surprise snack time laid out and we had a great time sharing after the service.
Pastor Claudio is continuing to build the church in front of his house.  Looks good although progress is slow.  He is doing almost all the work alone.
Met Henry and Claudia, leaders of our newest work.  They came down from Temuco and are starting a work in a rented community center.  We had a great time with them and encouraged them in the work and to work towards credentials.
Got home Fri and today we head to Cisnes.  Hope to return this evening.

View of the plane to Williams.  The same guy checks your ticket, takes your ticket at the gate, and loads your luggage.  Yes they have a metal detector, no they don't use it.

Nice view of the activity in the cockpit.  Captain came back before the flight and assigned 2 passengers to help someone off that was on crutches if we had an accident.

We fly over a number of glaciers on the way.

The church in Puerto Williams sends greetings!

Rhonda eating a Snow crab sandwich.

Puerto Williams is the Chilean capitol of Antarctica.  This could explain the cool temperatures.

Rhonda, Pedro, and Claudio in Claudio's church.

Chileans love you with food  :-]

Puerto Gala

Well, we made it to Gala and back, thought I'd give everyone and idea of what the trip was like:
Drove the 3 hours to Cisnes, ferry was supposed to arrive 11PM.
Ferry arrived at 5AM.
Trip was very slow, the old ferry just makes 8 knots.  We arrived at Gala around 11AM
We went to Leos's family's house.  They were very welcoming and showed us to our room.  We didn't rest although we very all pretty tired.  You can't really sleep on that ferry.

We walked (half mile or so) to town on the new boardwalk system.  Pretty steep in places but you don't have to take a boat everywhere now.  While in town we invited several people to an service that evening.

There ended up being some 10 people in attendance and most of them accepted the Lord as savior!

Next day I went out with Abraham to check his fishing lines.  Catch was poor and even more frustrating was the sea lions took more than half of what he did catch.

Ferry was supposed to arrive 10Pm, it arrived at 9Pm.  We jumped on and arrived back in Cisnes 2:30AM.  Took Leo and family home and got on the road around 3AM.  Arrived home 6AM.


Miscellaneous photos:

Door mat at the house

small skull hanging in the living room

'thank you for coming' gift from Abraham